After you perform a search, you can sort the articles by Year. This will rearrange the results of your search chronologically, displaying the earliest published articles first. This feature is useful to trace the development of a specific psychoanalytic concept through time.

For the complete list of tips, see PEP-Web Tips on the PEP-Web support page.

Viewing the full text of this document requires a subscription to PEP Web.

If you are coming in from a university from a registered IP address or secure referral page you should not need to log in. Contact your university librarian in the event of problems.

If you have a personal subscription on your own account or through a Society or Institute please put your username and password in the box below. Any difficulties should be reported to your group administrator.

Username:

Password:

Can't remember your username and/or password? If you have forgotten your username and/or password please click here. Once there, click the 'Forgotten Username/Password' button, fill in your email address (this must be the email address that PEP has on record for you) and click "Send." Your username and password will be sent to this email address within a few minutes. If this does not work for you please click here for customer support information.

THROUGHOUT HIS WRITINGS, FREUD frequently acknowledged his dissatisfactions with his metapsychological explanations. Since his time there have been many studies attesting to the recognition that this aspect of psychoanalytic theory needs to be systematically reorganized (Gill, 1963); (Home, 1966); (Rapaport, 1960); (Rycroft, 1968), expanded (Hartmann, 1939), (1964), and modified (Schafter, 1968); (Schur, 1966). But, it seems to me, there is a more fundamental issue involved here, namely, that it is incorrect in principle to derive a theory of cognition (perception, learning, memory, conception, etc.) from a clinical method that is avowedly limited to investigating the significance or meaning of conflict in thought or deed.

There is now both a need and a possibility for imbricating psychoanalysis with the advances that have taken place in other fields since 1900. Attempts have been made repeatedly to do this, but, I believe, they have not been as successful as they deserved to be because they aimed to modify rather than to revise those extraclinical explanatory hypotheses which Freud called his metapsychology.

It

[This is a summary or excerpt from the full text of the book or article. The full text of the document is available to subscribers.]